As marketing campaign ended for the Karnataka meeting elections on Monday night, political pundits are busy calculating the result. When the marketing campaign started two weeks in the past, specialists had made an general evaluation that Congress seems to be main to start with. The celebration performed its ’40 per cent fee’ card in opposition to the Bommai authorities, and BJP gave the impression to be on the defensive. There had been some leaders in BJP too, who had been levelling the corruption prices. The second setback to BJP happened, when the celebration determined to subject younger candidates, and denied tickets to old-timers like former CM Jagadish Shettar, Laxman Savadi. They give up BJP and joined Congress. The wave gave the impression to be favouring the Congress, however the celebration then dedicated one mistake after the opposite. The Congress election manifesto put PFI and Bajrang Dal on an equal footing and promised to revive Muslim job reservation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi latched on to this situation. He began chanting ‘Bajrang Bali Ki Jai’ in his election conferences and turned the tables on the Congress. For three days, Congress leaders had been in a quandary over reply. The Congress then dedicated one other mistake. Former celebration president Sonia Gandhi, in her solely public assembly in Hubbali, spoke about defending Karnataka’s ‘sovereignty’. Amit Shah made it a difficulty. The Congress needed to once more give clarifications. Two weeks in the past, Congress was on the offensive and BJP on the defensive, however at the moment, the state of affairs has modified. Congress is now on the defensive. In the start, Congress gave the impression to be main, however after Modi’s whirlwind marketing campaign throughout Karnataka, BJP has now come on equal footing with the Congress. In a intently contested election, margins of victory and defeat are slender, and it turns into very troublesome for anyone to foretell who will kind the federal government. Opinion polls for such shut contests typically show unsuitable. Polling is on May 10 and the outcomes will probably be out on May 13.
‘THE KERALA STORY’ : BAN NOT JUSTIFIED
The controversial film on terror-linked love jihad, ‘The Kerala Story’ has been banned by the West Bengal authorities, whereas in Tamil Nadu, theatre house owners have refused to display screen the movie. On the opposite hand, BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have declared the film ‘tax-free’. UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath plans to look at the transfer alongside together with his cupboard ministers on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in one among his election rallies in Karnataka, praised the film saying it was “based on terrorist plots and exposes terror conspiracies in Kerala”. The film, directed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, portrays the tales of Hindu ladies from Kerala who had been transformed to Islam after which recruited by the phobia outfit ISIS. Bengal is thought for its artwork, creativity and tradition, and information concerning the ban on the film by the Trinamool Congress authorities has stunned me. Does Mamata Banerjee actually feels that the film may create legislation and order issues after folks watch it in theatres? Or, did she ban the film solely as a result of PM Modi talked about it throughout Karnataka elections and made it a difficulty? The topic of the film might be questioned, the storyline might be opposed, however imposing ban on a film can’t be justified. It is just not that 100 per cent individuals are in opposition to this film, or 100 per cent folks help this movie. Anybody is free whether or not to look at the film or not. The operate of a state authorities is to not impose its resolution on the folks primarily based on political positive factors or losses. Those who say that the claims made on this film are incorrect, and that just a few love jihad incidents happened wherein some women had been despatched to Syria after being transformed to Islam, however it’s being proven as if hundreds of women are being transformed and despatched to Syria. My view is that whether or not it’s one lady or one thousand women, the variety of victims doesn’t reduce the gravity of the issue. Secondly, no film claims that it’s totally primarily based on information. Movies are created on a topic, not essentially primarily based on information. Love Jihad in India is a floor actuality. What’s unsuitable if a producer makes a movie on this matter? Was ‘The Kerala Story’ banned solely as a result of BJP leaders had been supporting the film. This is just not justified. Those who allege that BJP is anti-Muslim, and that Muslims are being defamed by screening this film, ought to hear what Muslim candidates fielded by BJP within the UP city native physique elections stated. These Muslim candidates stated, ‘it does not matter which movie comes or goes, who support or oppose. For us, the work of the government matters the most’. BJP has fielded 395 Muslim candidates within the UP city native physique polls in Bijnor, Aligarh, Meerut, Saharanpur, Kanpur, Varanasi and Lucknow. Nearly 90 per cent of those are Pasmanda Muslims. I used to be stunned to look at what these Muslim candidates stated about Yogi and BJP. Yogi has been telling voters in all his rallies that the advantages of welfare measures are reaching all sections, no matter caste and group.
DID VASUNDHARA SAVE GEHLOT GOVT ?
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot dropped a bombshell at a public assembly in Dholpur by claiming that BJP chief and former CM Vasundhara Raje saved his authorities in 2020, when a bit of Congress MLAs led by Sachin Pilot revolted. Gehlot alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah distributed cash to the tune of Rs 10-20 crores to dissident Congress MLAs, however Vasundhara Raje and one other BJP chief Kailash Meghwal got here to his authorities’s rescue. Gehlot challenged the dissident MLAs (belonging to Pilot camp) to return the cash to Amit Shah. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat challenged Gehlot to return out with proof or get the matter probed by CBI. Vasundhara Raje, in a press release, stated, ‘Gehlot is facing defeat in this year’s meeting polls and is attempting to diver the problems by telling lies’. She challenged Gehlot to file FIRs in opposition to the legislators who took bribes. She alleged that it was Gehlot “who is a master in horse trading of MLAs and had indulged in it in 2008 and 2018.” After listening to variations from all sides, one should attempt to perceive the politics behind what precisely Gehlot did. Publicly, his barbs had been meant for Amit Shah, however the individual he was focusing on was none apart from Sachin Pilot. It is a case of ‘kahin pe nigahen, kahin pe nishana’. Gehlot used a public platform to degree such allegations in opposition to Amit Shah, however his ploy could not work. Already, Sachin Pilot, at a press convention on Tuesday, lashed out at Gehlot saying, ‘Ashok Gehlot’s chief appears to be Vasundhara Raje and never Sonia Gandhi’. The turmoil in Rajasthan Congress goes to deepen within the coming days.
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